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Line 23: The home computer ports of ''Zork'' would prove immensely successful, and Infocom grew rapidly, focusing on producing new text adventures, as well as branching out into business software.<ref name=down/> Anderson would take on the title of "senior scientist, special-projects programmer" within the company, mostly assisting with development of new games.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Rouse \|first1=Richard \|title=Game Design: Theory and Practice \|date=2004 \|isbn=9781556229121 \|page=180 \|edition=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|last1=Ivory \|first1=James \|title=Virtual Lives \|date=2012 \|publisher=ABC-CLIO \|isbn=9781598845860 \|page=124}}</ref> The company's expansion into business software ultimately caused them to de-emphasize game production, which lead to their eventual demise in 1989.<ref name=down/><ref>{{cite web \|title=Stick to What You Know: Infocom and the Perils of Expansion \|url=https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/computer-games/16/196 \|website=The Computer History Museum}}</ref> After Infocom shut down, Anderson held a variety of positions in the defense and business sectors, including serving as the [[Chief technology officer\|CTO]] of ~~Offroad~~OffRoad Capital, a [[dot-com bubble]] startup for investing in private equity online.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Waldrop \|first1=Mitchell \|title=Computing's Johnny Appleseed \|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2000/01/01/236431/computings-johnny-appleseed/ \|work=MIT Technology Review \|date=January 1, 2000}}</ref><ref name=patch>{{~~Cite~~cite web \|last=McNamara \|first=Neal \|date=2023-03-22 \|title=Sudbury 2023 Candidate Profile: Timothy Anderson, Goodnow Board \|url=https://patch.com/massachusetts/sudbury/sudbury-2023-candidate-profile-timothy-anderson-goodnow-board \|website=Sudbury Patch \|access-date=2025-05-14 \|~~website~~language=~~Sudbury~~en}}</ref> ~~Patch~~The San Francisco-based firm maintained the first Internet site that allowed high-net-worth individuals to invest electronically in established, growing companies.<ref>{{cite news \|~~language~~last=enYoung \|first=Eric \|title=Big money doesn't always open doors \|newspaper=The Sacramento Bee \|date=September 2, 1999}}</ref> ==Personal life==

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